Vice President Albert Gore presented the National Performance Review
Hammer Award to the TIPSTER Text Program in recognition of its
contributions to reinventing Government. In his remarks, the Vice President
lauded the Intelligence Community partnering with the private sector and
leading universities. He stressed the importance of the TIPSTER effort to
"solve one of the most challenging problems of the information age" -- how
to find the information we need in the piles of text we see every day.